1900 - The first regular long-distance bus service began. It ran from London to Leeds and took two days.

1910 - Thomas Edison demonstrated moving pictures for the first time, at his New Jersey laboratory.

1910 - Mother Teresa was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Albania.

1912 - Edgar Rice Burroughs published “Tarzan of the Apes”.

1913 - Lieutenant Peter Nesterov, a Russian pilot, became the first person to perform the loop-the-loop.

1939 - The first jet-propelled aircraft, the Heinkel 178, made its maiden flight.

1950: The BBC transmitted the first ever live television pictures across the Channel, with a two-hour programme broadcast from Calais to mark the centenary of the first message sent by submarine telegraph cable from England to France.

1958 - The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) was set up to direct American space exploration.

1966 - Francis Chichester set off from Plymouth to become the first old-age pensioner to sail around the world single-handed.

1967 - Beatles manager Brian Epstein died of an overdose, in London, after a long period of depression.

1975 - Haile Selassie, Ethiopian Emperor, died. He was given an imperial-style funeral in 2000 and is worshipped as God incarnate among followers of the Rastafari movement.

1979 - Lord Louis Mountbatten, along with three others, was murdered by the IRA, who planted a bomb in his fishing boat, the Shadow V, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in Ireland.

1981 - Moira Stuart was appointed the BBC’s first black woman newsreader.

1985 - Mary Joe Fernandez became the youngest winner of a US Tennis Open match at 14 years and 8 days.

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